PTLite update apk file

Question

My team is supporting 20+ users of Paratext Lite on tablets out in a remote region. We manually installed the apk file to get PTLite on their tablets without each one doing the download. But this wasn’t the most recent version. Is there a place we can get the apk files for updates so that we can download it once and then install it manually for the 20+ users?

Answer 1

There are 4 variants of the apk file that get downloaded from the play store (arm, arm64, x86, x86-64)

For tablets you likely only care about the arm ones, but you need to get the right for the specific tablet.

One could download them from a third part apk site (eg. apkpure) but the variant coverage is often not complete.

If all the tablets are the same then I’d do the following:

1. on one tablet download the latest from the apk store.
2. Connect tablet to laptop via usb cable.
   (it’s possible one needs to put the tablet into developer mode to do this. adb will have to be installed on the laptop)
3. use adb to copy the apk from the tablet to the laptop.
   on laptop something like:
   adb shell pm path org.paratext.ptlite
   then:
   adb pull /data/app/org.paratext.ptlite…something… nameToSaveApk.apk

Alternatively you could just email me and ask me to put the latest apk’s on a google drive somewhere.

Answer 2

Great, thanks hindlemail! I’ll check with my team in their remote location and see if they’re able to follow those steps.

Answer 3

Since other people also ask for this I uploaded the 9.0.8.18 arm apk’s to https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1XozdkAYbnSc6YI-oVIkBQ3G4OVP_jHH1